| Show i An Untenable Theory J 1 jT plans to remove the artificial t ivi MR supports from our industrial system The Tho ThoI I protect protective e tariff in his matured carefully I judgment is an nn unnatural foundation upon which our economic structure has hns been Ho lie will I remove that if he ho can call and compel compol a reversion to toI I first principles n a readjustment will reduce us liS to the same economic level el with the tho remainder of the world I The American manufacturer after being binS given tho Democratic tariff panacea for nil all industrial ills I must theu maintain in his footing in his home market by sheer capacity to withstand the competition of or his foreign riYAls rivals Tho The American call industrial and md j i commercial machine the most efficient an and Success Successful sI s- s I ful since the dawn nl of time will wiIl bo be dismantled and its part parts segregated preparatory to a rebuilding I I that shall have no artificial assistance Concerning Concerning Concern Concern- t ing the tho transition period tho President is curiously I silent Either he desires desir's to afford us unhindered I I the joys of curious anticipation or he lie fails to recognize rec rec- t og nizo the inevitable I Readjustment in any my direction is always accompanied accompanied S by disturbances s when tho strata of mother I earth carth readjust a n city falls to ruins an and a country is laid west waste when tho the molt molten n interior of this terrestrial ter ter- wanderer readjusts a mountain labors and the inhabitant of the valley flee for their lives When Then American industry it Wilson dubbed artificial artificial arti foundation suddenly rem removed ved drops to that thai lower level it will require no delicate delic perception to tod d discern the disturbance In considering the p peri period ri d of adaptation T h when n i commerce and nud industry is c experimenting with its new ew basis basi it matters not one whit whether the thet t Presidents President's theory is right or the reverse revere Even if its ultimate and aud eventual effect cUed were certain to be bo bot t beneficial business bUBines must wander vandor through the thet t wilderness until it reaches the Promised Land I The lowest stratum of our commercial structure will logically be the first to roach the new anti and perI permanent per per- I I manent level at which it must henceforth remain I The working men and women of America the tho great reat greatt body of consumers that comprise e tho best market markett t t in the world must compete directly with those of other countries the artificial f foundation oun a tion that t thas l' l has kept their wages twenty forty and fifty per perI percent I cent better than employees ees in similar industries abroad Mr Wilson Tilson will remove The Tho era of competition he will introduce Wint will Win t a affect unfortunately ly all those who have been living Jiving on this artificial basis baJil It is there Mr r. r Wilsons Wilson's I theo theory collides with hard facts and crumbles to toI I atoms lie ile cannot do it and he ought not to 10 try f I |
